Art And Belief

Author : Ema Sullivan-Bissett
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192527916
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Art and Belief written by Ema Sullivan-Bissett and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-10-20 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Art and Belief presents twelve new essays at the intersection of philosophy of mind and philosophy of art, particularly to do with the relation between belief and truth in our experience of art. Several contributors discuss the cognitive contributions artworks can make and the questions surrounding these. Can authors of fiction testify to their readers? If they can, are they culpable for the false beliefs of their readers formed in response to their work? If they cannot, that is, if the testimonial powers of authors of fiction are limited, is there some non-testimonial epistemic role that fiction can play? And in any case, is such a role relevant when determining the value of the work? Also explored are issues concerned with the phenomenon of fictional persuasion, specifically, what is the nature of the attitude involved in such cases (those in which we form beliefs about the real world in response to reading fiction)? If these attitudes are typically unstable, unjustified, and unreliable, does this put pressure on the view that they are beliefs? If these attitudes are beliefs, does this put pressure on the view that all beliefs are aimed at truth? The final pair of papers in the volume take different stances on the nature of aesthetic testimony, and whether testimony of this kind is a legitimate source of beliefs about aesthetic properties and value.

Author : Roger Lundin
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780802821270
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Emily Dickinson and the Art of Belief written by Roger Lundin and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2004-02-03 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paying special attention to her experience of faith, Lundin relates Dickinson's life -- as it can be charted through her poems and letters -- to nineteenth-century American political, social, religious, and intellectual history. --From publisher description.

Author : Bryan Rennie
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000046796
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Ethology of Religion and Art written by Bryan Rennie and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-02-13 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing from sources including the ethology of art and the cognitive science of religion this book proposes an improved understanding of both art and religion as behaviors developed in the process of human evolution. Looking at both art and religion as closely related, but not identical, behaviors a more coherent definition of religion can be formed that avoids pitfalls such as the Eurocentric characterization of religion as belief or the dismissal of the category as nothing more than false belief or the product of scholarly invention. The book integrates highly relevant insights from the ethology and anthropology of art, particularly the identification of "the special" by Ellen Dissanayake and art as agency by Alfred Gell, with insights from, among others, Ann Taves, who similarly identified "specialness" as characteristic of religion. It integrates these insights into a useful and accurate understanding and explanation of the relationship of art and religion and of religion as a human behavior. This in turn is used to suggest how art can contribute to the development and maintenance of religions. The innovative combination of art, science, and religion in this book makes it a vital resource for scholars of Religion and the Arts, Aesthetics, Religious Studies, Religion and Science and Religious Anthropology.

Author : Daniel C. Swan
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 9781578060962
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Peyote Religious Art written by Daniel C. Swan and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 1999 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of the vibrant traditional and folk arts inspired by the sacramental use of peyote by members of the Native American Church

Author : S. Plate
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312240295
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religion, Art, and Visual Culture written by S. Plate and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2002-04-08 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religion, Art, and Visual Culture is a cross-cultural exploration of the study of visuality and the arts from a religious perspective. This forward looking and accessible collection gathers together the most current scholarship for those interested in art, religion, visual culture, and cultural studies. Inherently interdisciplinary, this reader approaches the study of world religions through the human, meaning-making activity of seeing. The volume oscillates between specific visual subjects (painting, landscape gardens, calligraphy, architecture, mass media) and the broader theoretical discourses which are relevant to Humanities students today.

Author : Navid Kermani
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1509514872
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wonder Beyond Belief written by Navid Kermani and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2017-11-22 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens when one of Germany's most important writers, himself a Muslim, immerses himself in the world of Christian art? In this book, Navid Kermani is awestruck by a religion full of sacrifice and lamentation, love and wonder, the irrational and the unfathomable, the deeply human and the divine – a Christianity that today’s Christians rarely speak of so earnestly, boldly and enthusiastically. With the open-minded curiosity of a non-believer – or rather a believer in another faith – Kermani engages with Christian art in its great richness and diversity. The result is an enchanting reflection which reinvests in Christianity both its spectacular beauty and its terror. Kermani struggles with the cross, falls in love at the sight of Mary, experiences the Orthodox Mass and appreciates the greatness of St Francis. He teaches us to see the questions of our present-day lives in the pictures of old masters such as Botticelli, Caravaggio and Rembrandt – not with lectures on art history or theology, but with an intelligent eye for the essential details and the underlying relations to seemingly remote worlds, to literature and to mystical Islam. Kermani's poetic school of seeing draws us in as we are carried along by his unique perspective on Christianity, rekindling our interest in great art at the same time. We are captivated by his unique and brilliant Islamic reading of the West.

Author : David S. Whitley
Publisher : Prometheus Books
ISBN 13 : 1615920560
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cave Paintings and the Human Spirit written by David S. Whitley and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on 2009-09-25 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whitley, one of the world's leading experts on cave paintings, rewrites the understanding of shamanism and its connection with artistic creativity, myth, and religion by interweaving archaeological evidence with the latest findings of cutting-edge neuroscience.

Author : Ema Sullivan-Bissett
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198805403
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Art and Belief written by Ema Sullivan-Bissett and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Art and Belief Presents twelve new essays, addressing questions at the intersection of philosophy of mind and philosophy of art, while also advancing these debates. It brings together recent work on belief and truth with issues concerning belief that arise in the philosophy of art. Several contributors discuss the cognitive contributions artworks can make and the questions surrounding these. Can authors of fiction testify to their readers? If they can, are they culpable for the false beliefs of their readers formed in response to their work? If they cannot, that is, if the testimonial powers of authors of fiction are limited, is there some non-testimonial epistemic role that fiction can play? And in any case, is such a role relevant when determining the value of the work? Also explored are issues concerned with the phenomenon of fictional persuasion, specifically, what is the nature of the attitude involved in such cases, when we seemingly form beliefs about the real world in response to reading fiction? If these attitudes are typically unstable, unjustified, and unreliable, does this put pressure on the view that they are beliefs? If these attitudes are beliefs, does this put pressure on the view that all beliefs are aimed at truth? Finally, this book explores the nature of aesthetic testimony, and whether testimony of this kind is a legitimate source of beliefs about aesthetic properties and value.

Author : Birgit Meyer
Publisher : Berg Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781845206161
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Material Religion written by Birgit Meyer and published by Berg Publishers. This book was released on 2007-07-01 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Shinto shrines to rosary beads, thangka paintings to missionary tracts, mass-produced posters to gravestones, religion is a material process. This book seeks to explore how religion happens in material culture - images, devotional and liturgical objects, architecture and sacred space, works of art and mass-produced artifacts.

Author : James Romaine
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781433531798
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Art as Spiritual Perception written by James Romaine and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reader covering everything from sixth-century icons to contemporary art, this compilation offers a critical investigation of art history from a Christian perspective.